Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The shop had been going since before the Second World War .
2 ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran .
3 In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles .
4 Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time .
5 At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 .
6 Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place .
7 She intended to go straight to the second floor and find a policeman she could tell about the keys , but when she reached the first floor landing she veered into the newsroom instead .
8 The effect of reading a Bill a second time is to curb further debate on the general principle for the time being and cause the Bill to go straight to the next stage , which is the committee stage .
9 Do n't expect meetings , discussions or journeys to go smoothly between the 12th and 16th .
10 Erm , all goes well for the first two years , no real problems there , the client is now , had an accident , an illness , sickness or whatever , now needs to claim on the policy .
11 I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction .
12 He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him .
13 More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time .
14 You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there .
15 Go home on the first flight out of here .
16 She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since .
17 I went yesterday for the first time .
18 McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest .
19 It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town .
20 It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months ,
21 They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run .
22 ANOTHER 400,000 jobs will go nationwide in the next 15 months , NatWest 's chief economist David Kern predicted yesterday .
23 Others from Rhodesia will go there through the next three months .
24 Many times the wrong name has gone forwards to the next round because competitors confused who was white and who was red .
25 Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism .
26 Heather went there on the tenth of September , you know , to see Rex Cunningham . ’
27 The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place .
28 She should never have gone there in the first place .
29 On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ?
30 And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place .
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